Ever wanted to play Dead Space, but you just didn’t have the time? Good news! EA is giving it away for free, with no requirements, but one teeny, tiny catch. Namely, you have to get your free games on Origin. But it may be worth it, in the long run.

It’s hard to think of a company more loathed than EA in gaming. For the third year running, it was in the Consumerist’s Worst Company In America bracket, although it got knocked out in the first round after winning two Golden Poos. Apparently Time Warner Cable finally got crappy enough, and Battlefield 4 wasn’t glitchy enough, to take the win.

One suspects this has something to do with EA’s new boss, Andrew Wilson. Working for the most hated company in gaming can’t be fun, and Wilson might want to change that. Hey, giving us free stuff is a good start. Even if we’re never going to stop putting Dennis The Menace next to you in our Photoshops.

After the DEBACLE of Battlefield 4 They should be giving the purchaser’s of that pile of crap free games. Not old games like dead space either. I bought the game for $60 and then 1 month later its 50% off . They said it was because of a black friday sale but the word was out that it was FULL of bugs, and was not selling as well. BF4 dlc NAVAL STRIKE was supposed to be released this past week, then 3 hours before they released it and HYPED THE CRAP OUT OF IT and how AMAZING it was and sold a boatload of that dlc, they said it was going to be released early April (MAYBE) because of a glitch. Every update of that game has fixed one bug and created 2 more. That company has ALOT to make up for. I wont be buying BF5 first day again. And they wonder why people pirate games. If I could return it I would.

Origin is EA’s digital games platform/storefront. It’s got some problems, but it’s unfairly maligned by a lot of people. The “Spyware” element Draven Chiam mentioned, for instance, was removed years ago. Origin is actually superior to the much-more-popular Steam in at least one way — it has a return policy.

As for Mac support, though, it’s pretty limited there. There are a few good ones — the Lego games and the Arkham games (which can be gotten on Steam anyway) — but they only have 75 Mac titles in total, and more than half of them are SimCity/Sims 3 DLCs.

No, they won’t change my mind. The arrogance of DICE’s public facing employees has turned me so far against anything they could ever do, ever. The twits from their producer and their “balance” expert were absolutely abhorrent.

Its six months later, and the game is a wreck. BF3 was bad, but not like this. To say nothing of the direction they’re taking the game, if it can lock on or be piloted remotely, its in! Riot shields, personal missile shields, etc. Terrible.